Sat, 20 May 2017 10:30:37 +0000 THE crisis of the ballooning prison population, amid limited correctional facilities, is no longer a criminal justice system or Government challenge alone: it demands the collaboration of all stakeholders, including our ever-present cooperating partners, to tackle. Yesterday’s Daily Nation story giving a graphic tale of the gross over-crowding in Zambia’s correctional facilities and its implications, makes very sad reading. It tickles the united conscience of the nation to urgently attend to this penal and human rights violation that has been growing over the years. It is totally unacceptable that 21,370 people, whether they are inmates or not, can be confined to spaces ordinarily suitable for the holding capacity of 8,250. According to the Human Rights Commission, this over-crowding represents 159 percent. The sad part of these statistics is that there is no single person, institution or political organisation to blame. It is a problem all of us Zambians have […]
